Harford County sheriff's deputies were called Friday afternoon to a barricade situation in Joppa, where they found a man dead.

Deputies were called around 1:40 p.m. to a house in the 500 block of Cider Press Lane in Joppa. Deputies and the Crisis Negotiation Team tried to contact a man inside the house.

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The Special Response Team entered the house around 4:40 p.m. and found a man deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No one else was found inside the house.

School officials said nearby Joppatowne High School was not on lockdown and that the school had dismissed for the day; however, students and staff who live in or around the affected area were being kept at the building as a precaution.